Hello everybody. I'm Deborah Roberts and welcome to 2020 The After Show. This story is one that I will not forget and probably most of our viewers and you listeners won't either. It was a murder investigation that shocked a small community, one that was known to feel safe and very picturesque, a beloved mom,

Angela Bledsoe shot to death inside her home in Montclair, New Jersey. Now, many of you learned

through our 2020 episode called Diary of a Killer that I reported this case. I spoke with Angela Bledsoe's family, along with

investigators about the 44-year-old mom who had been a financial advisor and the murder case that

led to an international manhunt. This story was nothing short of mind-boggling, and it led to an

unforgettable twist. And I am so looking forward to

catching up to talk about this story on today's 2020 The After Show joining me as senior producer Tajie

Smith. Hey Tashi. Hey, Debra. How are you? I'm good. I'm good. You and I are always bumping into each other

in the hallway. Yes, yes we are. When we're not working on stories together and you're always giving me the scoop on the latest. But this one, you and I worked on

a few years back. A few years back, yeah. Yeah, and it was one that you get really passionate

about stories. And I get the impression from you that particularly when there's family, like really

deep family connections to these stories, it really

moves you. Well, yeah, yeah, especially this one, because it did happen in my backyard. You know,

Angela, when I look at this story in her case, I'm like, that could have been me. That could

have been one of my girlfriends. I mean, she had a young daughter, same age as my

daughter. We lived in the same community, lived very similar lifestyles. I'd seen her around town.

Oh, so you had a sense of who she was even before. Yeah, I had a sense. And, you know, when people

turn to true crime, sometimes it seems like, wow, you know, we hear this, this isn't the type of thing that

would happen where I live. But when this story broke in Montclair, New Jersey, it became

so clear that it could happen to anyone. Yeah, yeah. And, you know, Angela was a woman of

color, upwardly mobile, you know, solidly upper middle class woman, a financial advisor, just the type of

woman who just seemed like she was on her way to a successful life, except she had this

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